Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] which [verb] the first " in BNC.

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1 The broken promises which littered the first of Mr Lamont 's three-part adaptation of Hard Times is testimony to the depth of crisis which grips both Government and country .
2 Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career .
3 Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures .
4 Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates .
5 The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases .
6 There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act .
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